I really like the older generation. I have a lot in common with them. A slight bemusement with technology, dodgy knees, a love of old-fashioned, coronary inducing Sunday dinners. The thing is, I don’t really have that many older people in my life. My parents are at the youngest end of quite large families, and so my [...]

I made my new year’s resolution some time towards the end of last year: I was going to spend less time working and more time making things. It’s now nearing the end of January and I find I have three jobs, a full-time university course and a nice line in music videos. I’m not complaining. In [...]

Happy New Year, and welcome to the future. Let’s start the year off as I mean it to continue… by me asking you to put your collective brains together to create one large, fleshy supercomputer. That didn’t sound as icky in my head. I’m embarking on a project this year, looking at the ways in which people relate, [...]

I’ve been catching up on some game playing. Primarily the adventures of Hershel Layton. Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box is based in a time when an Englishman could travel around with a young boy who wasn’t his close relative without being arrested or lynched. It’s based in a time when almost all problems can be [...]

I’m trying to be quite brave. I’m trying to write a post without pressing the spell-check button. I can see how technology has made me lazy – it brings the world to my door, negating the need for these legs to do much more than propel my chair to swivel whilst I’m waiting for things to [...]

It was a preposterous theory, but one that I wish was true – that a particle is sabotaging a machine from the future to stop itself being discovered.  It’s what happens when scientists watch too much scifi. Thank the Terminator franchise for that one. That said, it makes me wonder how much of what NASA does is inspired by pulpy [...]

Now, I don’t live in a particularly hostile urban environment. The sunless town of Lancaster is, on its worst days, pretty mild. Every so often I find myself indulging in slightly risky behaviour, either through a false sense of security or because even the residents of such a sedate place need to test their adrenal glands [...]

I made this comic as a guest strip for Chain Bear a little while ago, but thought I’d share it with you here. I know, it’s a little purile, but it made me giggle drawing it. So, then, I’m going to use this post to show you what you are all up to at the moment… [...]

You may have noticed a slight lack of updates recently… or, to put it in non-bloggy terms, a lack of comics. That’s because I’ve become a student again and as such I’ve been a bit busy. I have been making some art though, which I was planning on showing you, but after looking at it I’ve decided there [...]

I held off making a comic this last week or so because I’m not in possession of my pens and paper. But as I’m still not able to get at them I thought I’d have to go digital this once…I’ll come back and draw this in ink when I get the chance. Actually I think I’m [...]

I recently attended the christening of my nephew, the fantastic Stan… These days it’s quite rare for me to be found in a house of God. His furniture is hard, his wine is weak and I’m not really a big fan of his music. As a non-believer I always find being in church a little strange – [...]

Tinned or canned food… it’s fascinating. No, really, that was said without a hint of sarcasm. It’s probably one of the greatest achievements of modern civilisation… Our great wonder. The thing that will probably remain in some form long after we are gone, alongside the mountains of plastic buried beneath the earth. BC – Before Canning – food [...]

Last time we talked about The Flowfield Unity as a rescue home for slightly less than popular monsters… well, it hasn’t worked out and quite frankly I’m now overrun by them. Normally, the sort of monsters I’m used to dealing with are uninvited insects and such, and my weapons of choice include whatever happens to be [...]

There’s always a monster of the moment – whether it was the vastly popular zombie of last year or the re-emergent vampire of this… but all fail to compare to the omnipresent greater evil that is Cthulu. Which is why I chose to make my next animation zombie-based: OK, so my timing isn’t great, I’m at least [...]

Medication and animation,,, Well, it’s been a long time coming, and I know some of you have been holding your breath (see, tangential link to the comic), but I’ve finally managed to get the first Flowfield Unity animation sorted. Tada! I think it’s pretty close to the original strip and it certainly looks like my drawings… I’m taking [...]

Nominative determinism… it sounds like a very hungry zombie to me. I share the same level of fascination with it as the wonderful New Scientist, who have been running a list of such people for years, on and off. There is the phlebotomist friend of mine who has the surname of Blood, or the vicar of the [...]

If you’ve noticed that I’ve been quiet for the last week, then you might also like to know the reason for my silence was that I had the swine ‘flu. Let’s catch up shall we? I don’t know if the sarcasm comes across in the comic… I hope it does. The point I was trying to make, [...]

James Cameron may have been working on Avatar for over a decade, but even back when he started, the idea of exploring (and frequently destroying) strange new worlds with the use of controlled characters was not a new concept. Back in those days though, we just called them computer games. So, and feel free to [...]

Whether it is a zombie plague, alien invasion or the dawn of our robotic masters, it’s probably best that you learn at least one Morse code signal – SOS. It doesn’t mean ’save our souls’…. nor does it mean ’survivors on shore’ or ’save our ship’. For a start, the international distress signal, SOS, was first used [...]

I once started to write a novel. The opening paragraph went something like this: Two men stand urinating, shoulder to shoulder, in Euston Station’s public toilets. However, the next time they meet only one of them would be holding his penis. I didn’t say it was a good novel. But I’ve always been struck by the etiquette of [...]

So you stole the DeLorean, travelled back in time and assassinated a celebrity… You’re going to have to explain yourself. Who was it, when did you do it, and what good were you hoping to achieve by offing them?

Science fiction…  Let’s call it speculative fiction. I’ve been thinking about it since the Sci Fi Channel changed it’s name to shed the connotations of geekery– SyFy (That’s right, it only makes a difference when said aloud). “The name Sci Fi has been associated with geeks and dysfunctional, antisocial boys in their basements with video games and stuff like [...]

Perhaps we’ll never know what makes the contents of our craniums so attractive to zombies… the gooey centre? The sound of a cracking skull? They seem happy enough to eat it, but for some reason they never fill in the feedback forms, and generally seem to dislike being interviewed or asked to partake in focus groups. I [...]

At least that’s how I made it through the day whilst working as a typesetter.  I even had my own theme tune, playing in my head whilst I toiled away at the type face. Korobeiniki Bad typesetting is everywhere, leaving in its wake widows and orphans. In many ways that job ruined a lot of books for [...]

I’m technically homeless at the moment… and without constant internet access. And whilst this situation is soon to be resolved, I’m going to rely on you to keep me in touch with the world at large. Your comments here get sent to my mobile phone… which, fortunately, even as a transient, I can carry in my [...]